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1. Promo 1 skill share: Innovation is changing things. In today's world, innovation is important to
the advancement of our society because it solves problems and makes our
lives more efficient. Do you want to be
part of this change? Or even better? Do you want to be the
generator of a change? To reach innovation, you need
to develop a set of skills. Big innovators are not
just born like that. Yes, some of them
may have talents, but not every one
of them was gifted. Majority actually worked hard, learned a lot, and
became innovative. You can do it to
companies that have a vision are looking
for creative employees. For employees that are not
just following daily tasks, but also see how things
can become better. Being more innovative
adds value to the business and helps you
stay ahead of competition. The main purpose of this
course is to show you how to create the mindset
of an innovative person. Once you have innovation
as a culture, either it is on a personal
or professional level, you will always be
looking to make your work process or
personal routines better, more efficient and productive.
2. Introduction : Innovation is changing things. In today's world, innovation is important
to the advancement of our society because it solves problems and makes our
lives more efficient. You want to be part of this
change, or even better? Do you want to be the
generator of a change? To reach innovation, we need
to develop a set of skills. Big innovators are not
just born like that. Yes, some of them
may have talents, but not every one
of them was gifted. Majority actually worked hard, learned a lot, and
became innovative. And you can do it too. If you are looking
to join this course, that means you noticed
that you need to be more innovative or you
want to be more creative and come up
with any new ideas. And indeed, we live in a
world that is progressive, so fast that if we
don't keep up the pace, we will stay behind. Companies that have a vision are looking for creative employees. For employees that are not
just following daily tasks, but also see how things
can become better. Being more innovative
adds value to the business and helps you
stay ahead of competition. This short course is just a start for you
to understand what exactly you have to
work on in order to develop the skill of
being more innovative. The main purpose of this
course is to show you how to create the mindset
of an innovative person. Once you have innovation
as a culture, either it is on a personal
or professional level, you will always be
looking to make your work process or
personal routines better, more efficient and productive. Innovation is not
solving learned to be done once for a
project or a task. And that's it. It can be implemented in everything if you choose
to see its benefits. Even in the small things. We will start the
course with defining innovation and then see
who can become innovative, or better said, what is required to become innovative
because anyone can do it. Then we'll go
through the process of how to create
the right mindset. I prepared for you some
examples and stories from an amazing book that I used as the reference
for this course, along with many other
resources that I researched. As this course is just the start of learning how
to be innovative, I strongly recommend you
to take this full course. But you can find on my
profile, let's start.
3. What is Innovation?: Innovation is not
only one thing, it's a package
which you deliver, and it contains three
main components, value, opportunity, and impact. There's a common
misunderstanding that innovation can be reached only if you are born creative or if you're working in a
creative environment, many people save, their job
is boring, not creative. So how can we enjoyed, how can we have fun? How can we come up with
ideas and be innovative? Problem is not in
the job you have. Not the job has to be creative. You have to be creative. Of course, you need practice, constant work on
creativity to master it and to use it to make
it an invisible skill, something that comes
out of nowhere. It can appear in a blink. It has to become an
invisible discipline around problem-solving
in a creative way. Look for perfection when
you look for one idea. Because vet one stupid
idea that comes first might evolve into
something perfect which time? Look how to cultivate
ideas to create a culture of being creative
at any level of a company. It's anytime of the day
and from any source, even from how the garbage bin
looks or stand somewhere, then ideas will be converted
into value for customers. That is what ultimately
brings revenue. Don't make it a goal
to come up with ideas on how to make money. Come up with ideas, how to give value to customers. When the culture is created, it becomes a way of leaving, it becomes a mindset. Same way you live.
By some principles. Your way of working can be based on continuous search
for innovation. Innovation can be
about simple idea that has a huge impact. And that idea can be
about anything from the simplest process that at first glance might not be big, but it's about having a system, a creative process for
fostering innovation. The search for an idea is what will shape the
innovative process. How are you going to get
the innovation done? That is what you have to learn. The search if an
idea is a process, It's about taking
an opportunity and transforming it into
even more opportunities, is a blend of practices
and components. It's not only one thing
at the base of it. There are concepts
to be implemented. Core theories have to
be put in practice. There's no use of finding a good idea if you
don't implement it. Same with the process
of innovation. There's no use if you are
listening to this concept. Learning about them
only by taking actions, you can actually know
what works best for you. The blend has many components. Maybe some of them will not
suit you and it's okay. There are others. Try them and choose. Same like buying a new outfit, you must try to see if it fits. You don't try to be unique
unless unique means to you to come up with something
new out of existing. The best and simplest
definition of innovation is given by the x CEO of
JetBlue, David Neeleman. Innovation is trying to
figure out a way to do something better than it's
ever been done before. Remember, we said
innovation is a package. Let's consists of value,
opportunity, and impact. Innovation is about the value that you are creating by taking opportunities from
there and delivering that value in order to
create more opportunities, but ultimately will
have a big impact.
4. Innovation is not..: Innovation is not coming
up with something new. Most of the products
we have today are things that got
improved over time. They were not invented
at once as they are. Now. Let's take the same phone. But one thing that we use
so much was it invented, as it is now. Know, it took a 100 years, more than a lifetime to reach this stage of performance
and innovation. Why didn't people satisfy
themselves with the old phone? Because we made
it easier to use, because we had to adapt
towards progress and mobility. We had to make the
stationary phone become a mobile phone. So it fits the societies
requests and needs. And of course, make
it more beautiful and comfortable as we
want our lives to be. Innovation is not first of all about improving the
technicality of a product, but to create a greater
value to the customers. Society, to create satisfaction. An elegant solution that
comes after the process of innovation means
a simple solution, but so powerful, that
covers a complex problem. Small and simple ideas, but with grand effect
and significance. A simple idea of innovating
something is coming up with an optimal and
efficient product or service and improvement
with the least effort. While a handful of game
changing innovations can be traced to
stroke of genius, the vast majority of
effective innovations result from a rigorous search
for the optimal solution. Of course, happy accidents,
aha, moments, night, dreams with brought up some of the inventions that
are not repeatable, but they're so rare. You cannot just sit
and wait for them. You need to look
and create roles, moments by searching for
the better solution, by taking risks, through
applying small steps. So it covers the big lips. Innovation is how to
achieve big leaps. For small steps. Small step will not just take you to
the best final result, but also create a system
and the culture that will later on help to come
up with another idea. Chasing the perfect model. But not by waiting to
reach the best and the perfect in one step all at once. But coming up with
small steps each time. An amazing innovation will
serve the people who use it. An amazing innovation will
shape people's minds, change them for the batter, creates new behaviors
and will lead to even better processes
and lifestyles. Even an amazing
innovation is like a great leader who
inspires and motivates, do even greater things. It contributes to the
general well-being of everyone by its simplicity and the great impact it brings.
5. Who can innovate?: Are you an innovator? Maybe not everyone is born a genius or very
talented or creative. But all of these can be achieved
by being eager to learn, by being energetic
and wanting to change something
to make it better. Characteristics you need if you want to be friends
with innovation, is adaptable,
flexible, open-minded. Three, thinking, strong
decision-making, committed, and courageous. Work like an artist or
work like a scientist. A combination of
both is the best. Because at the end of the day, the best innovations are
combinations of art and science. Be maybe an outsider, not listened to those
who want to stop you. Not listen to the non-believers
or the envious ones. We will always exist because they are afraid
of changing something. Ignore those who disapprove you unless there's some
experts that are also into innovation and maybe they are
really encouraging you and just tell you that you are making the same
mistakes as them. So you can just skip them
and focus on something else. So you need to know to understand if someone
wants to help you or not.
6. Creativity and Originality - part of Innovation: Innovation involves
creativity and originality. There's a big stereotype
that artists are the only ones who are creative
and can bring originality. However, we can
all be artists in our own fields and use different tools to
create and innovate. We evolving world requires
everyone to be innovative. Otherwise, you stay behind
and no one needs you. Companies need
innovative people, creative people because of the speed of
everything changing. If you want to be the best, innovation is part of it. There's no way you're
going to reach the top. Without this skill. Being original is not easy. You still have to fit the
environment you are in. Because at the end of the day, you are innovating for them. At the same time. You have to bring them something new, something to impress. But this suitable to
the people's needs. Bringing up something original
means bringing change. And change is not
easy to accept. It's one of the biggest
fears of humankind. Being regional within the
skills and knowledge you have. But at the same time, outsmart hours and offer
something valuable. Quiet the hard, mission. Hard, but not impossible
when you are innovative. Being innovative and
the Regional means not to come up with the
greatest ideas ever. But we'll blow the
minds of everyone. But to simply make the process
better in your own job. It can be such a simple
change of procedure, but with the result
of saving money or time or employees energy, or even at a personal level. All of the above. Don't wait for a company to
change your job to be better. You look for improvements. And we're necessity change or claim that change
to the management. Innovation is really having
an efficient outcome. Why wouldn't we change it? It can be as simple as
one action change only. And it's not about innovating
at a company's level, but at an individual's level. However, continuously doing that and adopting innovation
as a culture, it will bring the big idea
that can blow minds as well. Or the whole process
will become better. Remember the definition
of innovation. Do something better than
it was done before. Make best use of
what you have at hand with the skills you already have and the
resources available. Every year, our work
gets more complex. Business gets more competitive, jobs, get more specialized. Carriers get less stable, goals, get more challenging. Deadlines. Titan budgets shrink. The pace of change, just
keeps accelerating. How are you going to
deal with all of that? There's no choice than to get
more creative and original.
7. How to be original and creative?: How to be original and creative. First of all, know yourself. In order to use
the best you have. You must know what it is. What kind of person are you? What skills do you have? So you can hone those skills. Be innovative in the
field, you know best. It's easier and more efficient. Because in that area, you are more confident
and you know, better what needs to be done, what flows that are you have experienced and
you know the processes. You also might
know what was done before and what it doesn't work, or how those ideas maybe can be improved and make it work. Be creative about
something that you like. You cannot be fully
creative in a job that you hate and you constantly
look for a way out. Your mind is just not
interested to invest in something that you will leave or you want
to live now, maybe. You can now give your
best and you can come up with ideas in the area
that you love the most. And you are so
passionate about it, but you want it to be better. It's like having a child
and wanting it to grow and become their best. And loving. What you do is not enough. You must know why you do it. What is the ultimate
goal of the company you are in or your own job goal. This way, you connect more. You need to know
why you would spend energy and time to be
creative and innovative. Knowing your why will always
give you a reason that is much more meaningful
when knowing your title, your identity is in why
you are doing what to do. Not in the title you have. But job is not creative. But our job is to be creative. How to be creative? By exploring, keep
asking yourself, what can be done better? Is there a better way? What is possible to do within my skills
and possibilities? Because you need to
know your limitations and explore amongst them. It is possible. And the world-class
musicians proved it by giving us amazing melodies. By using the same
eight basic nodes. We all know how they put them together is
where they manifest. Creativity and innovation. Be curious. Exploring means, asking questions and
looking for answers. Offer. Milan Cassandra once
said, I ask questions. Uh, stupidity of people comes from having an answer
for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question
for everything. Don't stop being curious. Even if you're old. Have you noticed how we ask less and less questions
when we start growing up. It's either the parents
who are tired to answer and they say stop
asking so many questions. Then there is this bad
stereotype that was created that those who ask questions
don't understand things. So they are stupid. They stopped questioning and slowly, slowly, we just adopt other people's
truths because we are told to us without
ourselves asking, is it actually true? So we just learned
what is out there, but what is out
there longtime back, it was not present. Somehow. It was discovered. If we stop asking
questions and exploring, how are we going to find
out what more we can have and what more is
there to discover.
8. Innovation - part of your behavior: It's not about coming up with great ideas and being
super talented. Instead, learning and
developing the process of being innovative and
adopting it as a behavior. Start with what is right in
front of you. Don't go far. Improve what is the nearest
star to your daily work, your desk, with
your work process. By doing that, you will have
small steps of development, meaning small increments,
that leads to excellence. Again, you can reach
excellence in one big step. It's about the length
of advancement, but in a continuous
resistant way. To continually innovate
and make things better, you need to get faster at
it as it's time-consuming. Also, you're aiming
for quality, isn't it? And obviously no one wants
to make it too costly, Otherwise, the whole
point is lost. Being productive can
help in this case, as getting faster It's
something and still maintaining the same cost and time means
you get to know better, more optimal ways of
making the same product or service better
within the same time, you managed to do more with the same available resources
or maybe even less. Of course, when we aim
for a better process or product means we
aim for quality. Giving value to customers
means giving them quality. But they're expecting
this quality at the same price or not
much higher than before. So innovation will
teach us to give more quality at the same
price within the same time. This happens when you become
so good at innovation. This is possible. Whoa, there will
be many who will compromise on the quality
for a lower price. At the end of the day, those people might become
unsatisfied customers and they will not return even if the price
satisfies them. If you look at all
the big ideas, big products and brands
that we use daily nowadays. Most of them are just
improved versions. Very few inventions but stayed as they are
from the beginning. Same phone and computer
you're using daily, the clothes we wear, and so on. It's evolution and the desire of people to always
improve things. Almost everything is based on something that already exists. It's something old,
transformed into something new by convergence, by combining several things, by adapting, or by
making it smaller. Another reason to
make innovation and culture and discipline is that it doesn't really work all the time when you
program innovation. Yes, sometimes in companies that happens like this, folks, now you're going to gather and brainstorm and come
up with ten ideas. Yes, This might work, but the best ideas don't
actually come out randomly. And when it continuously
look for innovation, it will come out without
ordering it to appear. And everyone has to be involved. Not only the high managers, but any individual at any level must know
and have confidence that when they find a
better way to do something will be listened to and
encouraged for more, to look for more progress. If you are a manager, be open to listen to your team members ideas and
encourage them to give, to come up with
something new because they are very front liners. Be so committed to
what you want to innovate that you enter
the customer's shoes. You feel and want
the same as him. Whoa, you are different. You know exactly what
he's looking for. Vo he doesn't know it yet. We are not born, are taught at school, unfortunately, how to
create systems of work. Systems on how to think. So we need to create our own. We are more taught to
believe in something. And then we combine multiple beliefs and
we create a system of beliefs that later is impacting our thoughts,
actions, and behavior. Your idea, in order to
be an amazing idea, has to fit the environment
it was created for. You cannot have something new in a place that relates
to your new product. It will not work. The idea has to
relate to the place, to the culture, to its
principles, its content. It's like having a painting
fitting in a frame. If it doesn't fit, then why this frame for this
painting otherwise? Change the frame. If your idea doesn't
fit to the place, put it somewhere else, or change something in
that specific environment.
9. How to start being innovative?: Learning is how ideas
turn into actions. Innovation starts with learning, accumulating knowledge
on a daily basis from everything
happening around you. If you know your
environment fully, you need to go beyond it and
learn what is out there. How can you come up with
something new if you don't even know
everything about the old. If you dare to say you know
everything about one area, you are fooling yourself so much because the word
is progressing so fast, there's always new
information to discover. You are smart as
long as you admit, but you can constantly
learn more and more. At the base of learning
is learning how to think. Learning is not just about
absorbing information. It is about analyzing what
you absorb an understanding it learning to think will
make you ask questions. Wondering about things, not just being spoon-fed with
everything you need, but understanding
what you also need to learn and how to do it best, then you need to
apply what you learn. Otherwise, how will you
know it's good information? Or if it works, you have to get the
experience and from it. You will also learn what I hear. I forget what they see, and I remember what I do. I understand innovation. We'll start with a question. How can I improve this? What is in front of me? What do I want? What do I need to do
to make it better? By coming up with
multiple answers, you will have multiple options
to apply and see which option works better by
experimenting, by taking actions. First, you question what
you need to improve, then you do it, then you reflect how
it worked and then act or apply the best option
and make it your innovation. The next acronym is a four-step way on how
to solve a problem. Investigate, conduct
fact-finding needed to fully analyze the
problem or the situation. Design, generate ideas and solutions based on a
complete investigation. Execute, conduct
an experiment to quickly pilot a solution
or a design prototype, adjust, assess the results, and improve the design
based on user feedback. And this is a wave that
problems can be solved.
10. Conculsion : Here we are analyzing this
short course and innovation. I'm very grateful and happy, but you decided to
work on this skill, but it's so demanded on both personal and
professional levels. As you saw, it is
very important to understand that
innovation comes from us. First of all, we
cannot just wait and see until a great
idea comes to us. We have to take actions
in order to reach to be innovative actions like
knowing yourself very well, knowing your product,
your service, your work process, and so on. You cannot improve something that you are not fully aware of. Being open to other people's
ideas, trying things, practicing creativity, setting
goals, and achieving them. Putting yourself in
other people's shoes, being committed and courageous. Asking questions, analyzing
and reflecting and taking responsibility on
creating a mindset of having innovation
as one of the skills. Taking small steps towards this mindset will help you reach the big ideas
you are aiming for. As you are aware in
this short time, it is impossible to touch on
too many points and give you enough practices on how
to be more innovative. That is why I recommend you take the full one hour
course to find out more specific practices with real examples and activities
that you can implement. Check the full course on the same platform or contact
me so I can direct you. I hope this was helpful
for you and I'm happy you decided to develop your skill
and be more innovative. That will definitely
add three or value. And soon you will
see improvements if applying them and taking
actions consistently. Good luck and see you soon.
Anastasia Grigoras
